Social Commerce Site SocialWish.com Shows its Stuff at DEMO Spring 2010

NEW YORK and PALM DESERT, Calif., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialWish unveils its online destination for making wishes come true at the DEMO Spring 2010 Conference today. SocialWish enters the Social Commerce category by combining social networking with ecommerce, allowing people to post their wish -- whether it's altruistic, materialistic or anywhere in-between -- and reach out to their personal community to help make it happen. It is now accepting email addresses for a closed beta.

SocialWish makes wish lists both universal and collaborative. Make a wish -- for yourself or someone else -- and share it with others to make it come true. This can be through social gifting by wishing for that new TV for you or camera for your friend; or it can be through social fundraising by helping fund a big charitable donation. Contribute any amount toward a wish, and make your donations publicly or confidentially.

Editors: a full press release is available on the SocialWish blog.

Founded on a Birthday Wish

"SocialWish started when my wife Tanya asked me to update my Amazon wish list before my birthday. My friends were all asking what they could get me. The fact is, I wanted an expensive Canon lens and I knew I couldn't ask any one person to spring for it," said CEO and Co-Founder Yan Tsirklin. "That's when it hit us: why can't we make it easy for groups of people to get together on a single item?"

"Social technologies are no longer just about communicating between people," said Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO. "We're seeing a blending of technologies in which social networking and commerce come together to allow the type of product that has emerged with SocialWish."

Pricing and Availability 

SocialWish is currently in a closed beta. To apply to be a beta user simply go to www.socialwish.com and enter your email address. Wishes are free to create and share; each contribution includes a small handling charge. Payouts come in the form of a SocialWish-branded prepaid Visa card that includes a one-time $4 charge to cover shipping and handling fees.

About SocialWish

SocialWish is dedicated to helping people realize the full potential of social commerce, social gifting and social fundraising. Founded in 2009, the company enables people to create, share and collaborate on big-ticket purchases, charitable contributions or any situation in which people can collaborate to reach a financial goal. With a commitment to wish-fulfillment, SocialWish donates 10 percent of its profits to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. You can find SocialWish online at www.socialwish.com.

About DEMO

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying cutting-edge technologies and helping entrepreneurs secure venture funding and establish critical business. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.

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